Word: myopically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...performance of convincing contrast to Aquino. His smaller stature reflects a personality of petty dimensions, and he plays it with the right touch of insecure eagerness and earnest naivete. Tesman's pride is his books, his major tension Lovborg's intellectual competition and his own half-admitted jealousy--a myopic outlook that leaves little room for his smothered wife...
...United States is among the most sexually myopic nations in the world, Bruce Voeller, director of the National Gay Task Force, told 150 people in Longfellow Hall last night...
...appropriately draw attention to the problem of nuclear-waste storage [Oct. 31]. But the nuclear critics who want atomic power to go away have their heads in the sand-it's here to stay, at least in Germany, France, Japan and Russia. A myopic policy will keep the U.S. out of the ball game but will not impede the growth of nuclear power. While we procrastinate, the rest of the world keeps betting that nuclear and safe, clean, economical are synonymous...
...seminar staged by Georgetown's Center for Strategic and International Studies, Kissinger dismissed as an "absurdity" the Marxist contention that American executives use the U.S. Government to help them impose economic imperialism on foreign countries. His reason: businessmen are too shortsighted to be so Machiavellian-indeed, too myopic to call on the American Government for legitimate help...
Instead of being "comprehensive," as Fox intended his plan to be, the plan shows a myopic concern for the efficient use of Harvard's existing housing facilities and for fiscal conservatism. Rosovsky has made a unilateral decision about everyday College life, a subject on which students have a right to help decide, with only the accoutrements of democratic consultation. He has yet to respond genuinely to demands to equalize the Quad with the rest of Harvard...